Cairo, Egypt
American University in Cairo
The AUC New Cairo Campus is designed to accommodate 5,500 full-time students and 1,500 faculty and staff on 260-acres as a technologically advanced and environmentally sensitive campus to offer state-of-the-art resources to students and faculty worldwide. The campus weaves Egyptian urban and architectural traditions into a modern campus and is designed to be accessible to persons with disabilities. The University has a planned landscape that includes nearly 150 different plants – a mixture of international and native Egyptian and more than 8,000 trees.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Education
- Net floor area
- 203068 m2
- Land plot size
- 1092000 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Construction type
- Mixed construction
- Original construction year of the building
- 2008
- Project contact
- Eng. Yasmine Mansour Mahmoud
- Contact email address
- y.mansour@aucegypt.edu.com
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- The American University in Cairo
- Architect(s)
- CDC AbdelHalim from Egypt and Sasaki and Associates from Massachusetts, USA
- Construction contractor(s)
- The Egyptian subsidiary of the South Korean firm Samsung in a joint venture with Samcrete
- HVAC consultant(s)
- SHAKER GROUP
- Other project team partners
- Ellerbe Beckett (USA), David Dymecky (now with Sasaki) and Steven Terrill (now with HKS, Inc.)
- Additional information
- The campus was built using 24,000 tons of reinforced steel and 115,000 square meters of stone, marble, granite cladding, and flooring. The main entrance to campus, is inspired from the structure from AUC Tahrir Square’s iconic arch.
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Other
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- Constructed from sandstone from a single quarry in Kom Ombo
- U-Value
- 1.62 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- U-Value
- 1.0 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 2.8 W/(m²*K)
- Frame material / description
- Wood
- Overall u-value window
- 2.8 W/(m²*K)
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- N/A
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation system without heat recovery
- Description
- 518 Exhaust Fan and 265 Supply Fan
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Flakt Woods
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Description
- Centralised Absorption chiller, 5 Chillers ( 4x1100 TR & 1x700 TR )
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Ebara
- Secondary space cooling system
- Mounted single-split or window air conditioner│Usually a visible smaller system mounted outside the wall or above the window just supplying one room
- Description
- 500 Unit ( 5% of Load )
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Carrier & Trane
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Cogeneration (gas)
- Description
- Gas Fired Boilers
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- BIB Cohran UK, Beldwin, Danstoker
- Secondary Space heating system
- Cogeneration (gas)
- Description
- Waste Heat Boilers ( Cogeneration ) ( 2x760 kW )2x1625 kW & 1x2300 kW
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- BIB Cohran UK, Beldwin, Danstoker
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Combi system (system provides space heat & hot water)
- Description
- Through Heat Exchanger with Heating Water,7 Heat Exchangers
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- A.O Smith
- Secondary water heater system
- Dedicated electric heater (dedicated = just hot water generation)
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Ariston
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
- Secondary lighting system
- Linx Lamps, CFL & Lutron lighting system
- Description
- Lutron lighting system ( lighting control system ) is used for control lighting system in buildings and the extensive outdoor lighting on the campus.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- 1. Osram Lights 2. Philips lighting
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Static (fix) shading systems as part of the building architecture (e.g. Maschrabiyya, porch roofs, pergolas)
- Description
- Traditional Arabic “mashrabiya [wooden window screens] for privacy and sun-protection, window enclosed with carved wood latticework
Photovoltaics
- Capacity
- 16.9 kWp
- Description
- 69 * Yingli solar Modules 245 watt. 2. 1 * 15 kw SMA inverter, Schneider circuit breaker for AC protection.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Solariz Egypt
Other technical building systems
- Description
- Shukshaykhas [vented domes] to remove hot air, Malkafs [wind catchers] on roofs to capture prevailing winds
Final Energy Demand
- Total specific final energy demand
- 271.6 ( 86.1 kBtu/ft2 ) ( for a year ending june 2021 ) kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Project construction cost
- 353918000 EUR
